Episode 1: A Conversation with Jessica & Melanie
NOTE: This is our first episode. We were working out the kinks so stick with us. Lots of great information, but the recording quality is pretty horrible -- we know and we worked it out for future episodes. We hope you'll stick around to find out :-).
 Creative Nonfiction Editor Jessica Langlois |  Fiction Editor Melanie Hilario |
Show Notes:
- What the editors want to see when you submit to Generations.
- Creating a literary life and how to fit writing into your everyday grind.
- The latest trends in fiction and creative nonfiction from our genre editors.
- Explaining the reading process for selection in Generations.
- Contextualizing your writing in the larger conversation of humanity.
- Breaking down the next theme (Heritage) for Generations submissions.
BOOKS MENTIONED
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Writing Past Dark by Bonnie L. Friedman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Writing Past Dark by Bonnie L. Friedman
WRITING RELATED QUOTES
"The best art risks most deeply. It is intended not for a group of readers but for one. It descends into the subterranean, the shameful, the fraught, the urgent the covert. What cannot be said aloud because it defies conversation. What cannot be said aloud because it exists only as this constellation of scenes, this concatenation of details on the page, but passes invisibly over the earth because you have not yet pointed a finger at it. Write what you care about. Don't write one more word that you don't care about. Don't waste any more of your life on what does not matter to you." -- Bonnie L. Friedman |
"It's never to late to be what you might have been." -- George Elliot
"Don't be afraid of failure. Failure is the only thing that teaches, success does not. ...you have to be fearless." -- Patti Lupone |
WRITING ADVICE WE'VE GOTTEN (paraphrased of course)
- Ask yourself -- "Is the writing too precious?"
- Do what serves the story.
- Make sure something happens in the story.
- Don't leave out the most important details.
- Every word should be necessary.
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